Ghosts in October II

Thursday

Oct 31, 2013 at 5:52 PM

Gary DeNeal

Late and Breaking!
Overnight word has reached the far shores of the Saline that the biting critters we call ladybugs are anything but. (In the famous poem quoted in “Ghosts in October I” they were referred to as ladybirds, but that’s a whole other story.) Most of us are concerned less with their name(s) and more with the fact they bite. That being so, perhaps the best name of all would be unladylike biting bugs, though it’s hard to imagine working that into a short poem, or even a jingle.
This is supposed to be the seasons of witches and goblins, not mean-spirited denizens of the insect kingdom.
At least we should feel some relief knowing our unwelcome visitors are not ghosts. Were that the case, and they still insisted on biting, we’d be in trouble.
Shown here is an enhancement of a ghost “ladybug.”
Rest easy. Until learning otherwise, we can assume such creatures do not exist.
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